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Married. Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant; and John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams, son of Major General Sir John Hanbury-Williams of London; in Washington, D. C. President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding...
Died. Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer, 32, and Harry Tucker, 34, famed transContinental flyers, flying the Lockheed-Vega plane, Yankee Doodle, following a crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight-24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes...
Died. Robert Lansing, 64, Secretary of State under President Wilson: of heart disease; in Washington, D...
Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres...
Tosca, Lohengrin, Cavelleria, Walkure followed the first season. Rosenkavalier, Thaïs, Tannhaüser, Fedora, Jenufa, Jewels of the Madonna, Turandot, Violanta, Carmen have been added since. Tosca and its like have brought her most fame. All the world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget...